Many thanks to you for your book and kind
words.[2]
I was simply delighted to read your remarks against the
bourgeoisie and for Soviet power. I shake your hand very
warmly and with all my heart wish you health, health and
health again!

Notes

[1]Timiryazev, K. A. (1843–1920)—Russian Darwinist, outstanding
botanist and physiologist, gifted populariser and propagandist
of scientific knowledge. Corresponding Member of the St.
Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He was the first eminent scientist to
welcome the October Socialist Revolution.

On page IX of the book there is a gift inscription from the
author that reads: “To deeply respected Vladimir Ilyich Lenin from
K. Timiryazev, who counts it his good fortune to be Lenin’s
contemporary and a witness of his glorious work.”